DUBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Question

Brian...I have a ? about Adobe Illustrator CS4.I have done this 100 times before but now its not letting me do it! I am trying to make a clipping mask for a logo so its lettering would be camo. I have the the como over the part i want clipped and i selected both items and right clicked and pressed make clipping mask...and i get this error...what an i doing wrong?

Im guessing the camo is an image that you want clipped to the shape of the letters?

Try this: make a new layer, on top of the logo layer.

Place the camo image on that layer.

Lock it ( on layer box).

Select the type.

Copy it.

Click back on the layer with the camo (unlock it first).

Paste the type that you copied on TOP of the camo.

Go to the color palette... turn the outline and fill color to nothing. (box with line through it).

Select all the letters and the camo then right click/clipping mask.

Try that man. Illustrator can be finicky sometimes. One wrong step and your ERRORED.

Let me know how you do.

Dubs wrote:

Im guessing the camo is an image that you want clipped to the shape of the letters?

Try this: make a new layer, on top of the logo layer.

Place the camo image on that layer.

Lock it ( on layer box).

Select the type.

Copy it.

Click back on the layer with the camo (unlock it first).

Paste the type that you copied on TOP of the camo.

Go to the color palette... turn the outline and fill color to nothing. (box with line through it).

Select all the letters and the camo then right click/clipping mask.

Try that man. Illustrator can be finicky sometimes. One wrong step and your ERRORED.

Let me know how you do.

Thats what I was going to say

didnt work man...i got it to clip without the error but now it clips it and erases the letters lol

alright I figured it out.

Place your image

Send it to the back (behind the letters)

Select the letters

Go to Window/Pathfinder (bring up the Pathfinder box)

With the letters selected Click the first box "Add to Shape Area"

Click the expand button.

NOW select the camo image and letters and clip it.


The problem was that there are multiple paths that make up the letters. By using the pathfinder tool you are able to join them all in one.

I just did it to the logo to test it, so I know this one works.

Yes! It did work! Thanks a ton brian! I was sitting there forever trying to figure it out! Haha you da man

brian you are officially a geek

No problem man...

And fred...

11pointer wrote:

brian you are officially a geek

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